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01/16/12--06:10: Portraits of a Marriage (chan 1624076)

Last time I tried a word not only in self-defense, but also in defense of criticism. Words need not stand in the way of art, but rather open new loves, new doubts, and new understandings. And of course I meant a specific model of criticism, defended here often before—one that refuses to disentangle theory and [...]


01/18/12--05:19: Cast a Cold Eye (chan 1624076)

Remember when a museum was a loved and fearsome place? Sherrie Levine surely felt it as one, and she is still getting over her love and her fear. In her museum retrospective, at the Whitney through January 29, she wants others to get over it as well. She is smart enough to know that it [...]


01/20/12--06:04: Dance Class (chan 1624076)

It makes sense somehow to think of a dancer as a visual artist. It suggests the affinity of modern dance with performance art, both so often silent except perhaps for music. Make that often plotless as well. It gives new meaning to that old phrase for sculptors like David Smith, drawing in space. It captures [...]


01/23/12--06:03: Death in a Toy Store (chan 1624076)

In 1989, Maurizio Cattelan vacated the premises. He simply closed the gallery and put up a sign: Torno subito, or “Be back soon.” Now, twelve years later, he has a promise to make. After his Guggenheim retrospective, “All,” this is it. No more art for him. He will give up art once and for all, [...]


01/25/12--05:47: Brooklyn Beginnings (chan 1624076)

Only a cynic could resist looking to the new year for new beginnings, and what better place to look than Bushwick? That is just where I found myself on New Year’s Day—and in a new gallery to boot, Storefront Bushwick. The abstract painters there might even be said to live on border lines. Only some [...]


01/27/12--06:07: Sunflowers and a Wrecking Ball (chan 1624076)

Ai Weiwei has recovered something precious about art—its dangers. Yes, art is dangerous. I thought I would never say that again, for all the dead sharks, carnival rides, pretend shocks, and trashed galleries. It was dangerous enough to get the artist and human-rights activist arrested, although I realize that is a little easier in China. [...]